Windrush: Sir Trevor Phillips assesses the impact 75 years on
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On arrival in the UK, however, people were often met with racism, a lack of acknowledgement of their professional skills and very different living conditions. The Windrush's arrival has become symbolic of the generation of Commonwealth citizens who came to live in Britain between 1948 and 1973.
Some 75 years on, broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips sits down with Sky News Daily host Niall Paterson to explore the impact and influence of the Windrush generation on British life and culture.
You can watch Windrush and Us with Trevor Phillips on Sky News's YouTube channel.
Podcast producer: Soila Apparicio
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| 1:03.7 | The arrival of more than 400 happy Jamaicans. They've come to seek work in Britain and are ready |
| 1:09.5 | and willing to do any kind of job that will help the motherland along the road to prosperity. |
| 1:13.6 | 75 years ago, coming into port, HMT, Empire Windrush. |
| 1:20.6 | They're all full of hope for the future. |
| 1:22.6 | On it were 1,027 passengers plus two storeways who'd made the long journey from Kingston, Jamaica to Tilbury Docks in London. |
| 1:31.8 | So let's make them very welcome as they begin their new life over here. |
| 1:39.5 | The wind rush arrival became symbolic of that generation of Commonwealth citizens |
| 1:44.6 | who came to live here in Britain between 1948 and 1973. |
| 1:49.9 | The Windrush stood for the dissolution of that familiar colonial environment. |
| 2:00.4 | The Windrush stood for a new kind of adventure. |
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